OK Go Makes Me Happy Once More

60 tries, 40 volunteers, 20 bowling balls, 10 broken tvs, 5 sledgehammers, 4 paint guns , 3 completed shots, 2 days, 1 take and no cuts. Brilliant.

All You Need Is Love

Doesn't matter that Starbucks commissioned this--it's great anyhow. A while back, I posted the Stand By Me video. Yeah, you know the one. The one recorded in many many places with a so-called "virtual" studio. That was awesome.
This is no-less awesome. 156 countries (including Albania, in true over the TOP fashion [me ben shume qejfi, if you get that pun]) singing The Beatles' All You Need Is Love. At the same time. Starting at 1:30pm GMT on December 7, all the musicians started to sing at the same tempo. What results is a fantastic show of musicianship and showmanship--not to mention some awesome culture thrown in the mix.
Hoping to raise awareness of AIDS in Africa for the (RED) foundation, I think Starbucks did a noble job.
[Starbucks Love Project]

UPular

Is it that obvious I've been out of school for the past week? Haha.
Check out an awesome mix-mash of UP, Pixar's great movie this year. It's fun.

UPDATE: Apparently, Disney Pixar is actually supporting Pogo's remix! Yay!

OK Go - WTF?

You gotta love playing with the strobe effect. We do this sometimes with our live video switcher when we're setting up campus video events and have 6 screens going. It's quite fun. Lovely and colorful video again (even one shot again perhaps?) continues to show that OK Go has figured the music video thing out.

Sigur Rós - Glósóli

Just came across this. It is beautiful. Absolutely up there with my favorite music videos.

TED this week

My favorite TEDTalks from the week:

Sour Music Video

This has to be one the most creative music videos I've ever seen!

[UPDATE: I prefer Vimeo, because YouTube is just plain not classy, but seeing as they removed the music vid from Vimeo, here YouTube is saving the day. Sorry for those who it died on.]

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100 Meter Photos and The Beatles

There is a fantastic photo which can be found here that is an actual 100m long photo. Quite cool.


Also, here's a pretty interesting list of Beatles' songs in order of how good they are. I don't know if I completely agree, but here are the bottom ten and the top ten:

185. “Revolution 9”
184. “Honey Pie”
183. “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”
182. “Yer Blues”
181. “Good Day Sunshine”
180. “Ask Me Why”
179. “Long, Long, Long”
178. “Little Child”
177. “Old Brown Shoe”
176. “You Know My Name (Look Up My Number)”
175. “I Wanna Be Your Man”

10. “Eleanor Rigby”
9. “Something”
8. “Strawberry Fields Forever”
7. “In My Life”
6. “All You Need Is Love”
5. “Hey Jude”
4. “Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End”
3. “She’s Leaving Home”
2. “I Am The Walrus”
1. “A Day in the Life”

On other random notes, Layer Tennis is a sweet little competition where two photoshoppers send a file back and forth, each adding something to the image. It looks like it will be pretty fun, and the second season starts in February. If you're into Photoshop, you should consider checking it out, since you can look at the archives and see exactly how some designers work. Sign up for season tickets (free) if you want to be informed.
And does physics not apply to most of the universe?

While My...Ukulele Gently Weeps?

I'm a huge Beatles fan. Huge. If you appreciate musical talent AND can sympathize as a similar fan of what is arguably the most talented musical group of modern history, you'll really enjoy this cover of Georgie's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"...on the ukulele. You don't even have to watch it to appreciate his musical ability. This guy, Jake Shimabukuro, is really good. He was featured on NPR a bit ago too.